Shelby County Today

May 23, 2018 - Center HS Roughriders Baseball Team Awards

MVP: Jaxon Covington
Offensive MVP: Tyler Fountain
Defensive MVP: Logan Mitchell

All 15-4A District Awards
Most Valuable Player – Jaxon Covington, SR, 1B/P 
Offensive MVP – Tyler Fountain, SR, OF/P
Co-Defensive MVP – Logan Mitchell, SR, 3B 
1st Team Pitcher – Clay Snider, SR
2nd Team Catcher – Christian Lee, SR
1st Team SS – Dalton Alexander, SR
1st Team OF – Juan Gonzalez, JR
2nd Team OF – Zacc Smith, SO
1st Team DH – Alejandro Flores, SR
Honorable Mention – Jayden Hicks, SO, 2B

Coach of the Year – Kelly Spann

Congratulations Riders on an awesome season!!

May 17, 2018, Center High School – Senior Center High School student Mildred “Millie” Medina has signed a letter of intent to play soccer with Paris Junior College next season. Medina will graduate high school later this month and take her talents to the next level. She looks forward to pursuing a college degree in possibly business or the health field.

Paris Junior College has three campuses in Texas. They are at Paris, Greenville, and Sulphur Springs. The Paris Campus was established in 1624. They have about 5,000 students when all campuses are combined. The college prides itself in academics and has had several athletic successes as well, including a 2005 Men’s NJCAA Basketball Tournament Championship.

Medina said, “The people at Paris Junior College made me feel welcome. I will miss my friends and family here in Center but I am looking forward to next school year at PJC.”

Medina will be looked at to play forward with the Paris JC Dragon team for the 2018-2019 National Junior College Athletic Association’s Southwest Conference season.

May 14, 2018 (Registration form) - The Lady Roughriders Summer Basketball camp for girls entering 1st through 8th grades will be held June 5th through June 8th in the Middle School Gym.

Camp will cover fundamentals, character training, success in competition, mental toughness and how to think the game.

Cost is $30 per Camper. All lady athletes will receive a camp T-shirt. 

All camps are hosted by Coach Doug Boone who is the Center HS Head Girls Basketball Coach. Questions? contact by Cell 936-635-7164 or Email boonied13@gmail.com

Early registration ends May 25th. Campers can register day of camp.

Please make all checks payable to:
Center HS Girls Basketball
Attn: Doug Boone

June 5th – 8th, Camp schedule

• Girls Entering 1st – 4th Grades 9:00 – 12:00 noon
• Girls Entering 5th – 8th Grades 1:00 – 4:00 pm

May 12, 2018, Nacogdoches High School Sports Complex –

The Shelbyville Dragons Varsity Baseball team dropped a Game 1 Area Round Playoff to the Douglass Indians, on Friday, by a 7-3 score. The game was tied 2-2 at the end of seven innings and it took five extra innings to decide the outcome.

Douglass came into the contest as the first place representative of District 22 2A, they had a 22-4 season record. Shelbyville came in as the third place representative of District 23 2A, with a 15-4 season record.

The game was scoreless until Douglass took a 1-0 lead in the top of the third inning when Logan Lee hit a single up the middle. He was later driven in by teammate Jarred Holland’s single to right field. Holland hit another RBI single in the top of the fifth inning. This scored Chad Watson, who had reached base on an error, giving the Indians a 2-0 advantage.

Dragon Kolby Parker drove in Shelbyville’s first run with a run-batted-in single in the bottom of the fifth inning which cut the Indians lead to 2-1. The Dragons tied the game 2-2 in the bottom of the sixth inning. The game remained tied at 2-2 until Douglass exploded for five runs, six innings later, during a twelfth inning rally which gave them a 7-2 advantage.

Dragons’ shortstop Cole Ferguson led off the bottom of the twelfth inning with a towering solo homerun well over the leftfield wall. This cut Douglass’ lead to 7-3. The Dragons then loaded the base paths on an infield hit and two walks but the DHS defense was able to get the needed outs to end the game.

Shelbyville had six hits and walked three times. The Dragons defense committed five errors. Douglass hit safely 11 times, walked four and committed no errors.

Dragon Kolby Parker pitched eight innings, struck out nine and gave up seven hits.

Indian pitchers teamed up for 13 strikeouts and gave up six hits and four walks.

Game 2 will be at Nacogdoches High School today, Saturday May 12 at 3 p.m. If necessary, Game 3 will follow immediately afterward at the same location.